Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28724, Ebenezer Farnworth, New York

SERVICE
New York
Farnworth, Ebenezer
NUMBER _____
Q. 28724
CONTENTS

4474
New York
Ebenezer Far. north
of Granville in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Cook and of the Regt. commanded by Col. Evans in the New York line for the 33 months & 15 days as a Private & 15 days Sergeant
Enrolled on the Roll of New York at the rate of 80 Dollars 83 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 d day of Janua- ry 1833 — and sent to H. Parker No. Granville N.Y.
Arrears to 14th of Sept 1832 — $121.24 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar 33 40 41 $161.66
{ Revolutionary Claim, { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Chas. Grimwood Clerk Book D Vol. 5 Page 88

Olneyer Mansworth
To be sent from War Department to John C. Parker North Haven Wash. Co. N. York
7848.
admitted
15 days - sent
23 mo 15. — private
24 mo.

I, J. Leigh Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Washington in the State of New York Do hereby certify that the papers hereto annexed containing the Declaration of Ebenezer Farnsworth the affidavit of Thomas Griffith & Timothy Allen the opinion of the Court and my original certificate are the original papers in the application of Ebenezer Farnsworth for a pension. and that he has now made a supplemental statement of his services which is hereto annexed and sworn to before H. C. Parker Justice of the Peace for said County. And further that John C. Parker before whom Thomas Griffith & Timothy Allen purport to have been sworn to their said affidavits was at the several times thereof a Justice of the Peace in for said County duly authorized to administer oaths in said County and before whom the supplemental Declaration was also sworn and that his name as H. C. Parker to the several oaths and certificates of credibility of the several witnesses hereto annexed is his proper name and writing well known to me that he has hitherto continued to be and still is a Justice of the Peace of said County In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my Seal of Office at the head of this my certificate upon the narrow Ribbon binding the papers together this 21 st day of December 1832
J. J. Leigh C.P.
In my fourth tour in said Declaration for six months I served 6 mo. as a Sargeant Capt. Carmide & his Company Col. Herricks Key. In my fifth tour in said Declaration for half a month I served 15 days as a Sargeant in Captain Miles Company Col. John C. Gay. And in the various other times mentioned for thirty four days served 28 : 18 as a Sargeant in Captain Miles Company Militia. And for which services I claim a pension.
Ebenezer Farnsworth
Subscribed & sworn this 20th day of December 1832 Before me
H. C. Parker Justice of the Peace
as Sargeant 8 mo 18 days

State of New York & Washington County
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Washington & State of New York Ebenezer Mansworth named in the annexed Declaration who being duly sworn deposes and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service But according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades -
6 mo. For Six months being my first tour in my Declaration hereto annexed I served as a common Soldier
In my second tour mentioned in said Declaration for ten months actual but having enlisted for one year served until the Regiment was disbanded
12 mo. I served as a common Soldier
In my third tour in said Declaration for one month I served
1. mo as a Sargant in my company under Captain Childs of the Militia
In my fourth tour in said Declaration for six months I served
6 mo. as a Sargant in Capt Carmine's company under Colonel Hargreaves
In my fifth tour in said Declaration for half a month I served
1/2 day as a Sargant in Captain Childs company under Colonel Hargreaves
And in the various other times mentioned for thirty four days served
26 : 18 as a Sargant in Captain Childs company under Colonel Hargreaves
And for which services I claim a pension.
Ebenezer Mansworth
Subscribed & sworn this 20th day of December 1832
Before me
J. C. Parker Clerk
as Sargant 8 mo 18 days

State of New York Washington County ss.
On this twenty eighth day of August - 1832 personally appeared in open court before the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in said County, Ebenezer Farnsworth a resident of the town of Granville in the County of Washington & State of New York aged Seventy six years on the sixth day of November last past who being first duly sworn, asserted to Law and on his oath made the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832 That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
That he lived in Granville County of Washington & State of New York and being on Crownpoint the latter part of May 1775 he enlisted in Capt Robert Cochran's Company in Col. Eason's Regiment for six months (the Brigade he does not know) in the Massachusetts line that he continued served in said Corps at Crownpoint until the Army went to Canada, when he went on Board a Schooner as a mariner with the Army and went to St Johns in Canada was there at the taking of that place, and in the beginning of winter he returned to Ticonderoga where was then discharged by Genl Schuyler about first of December of that year - That in the campaign he knew Genl Montgomery General Schuyler. Col. Newman. Maj. Elmer Col. Ethan Allen
and he further states that in April he believes in the year 1776 he enlisted in Capt. Oliver Parmachoo's Company in Col. Bunnell's Regiment. Maj. Sedgwick for the term of one year (the Brigade he don't know) he also enlisted in Granville when the Company was on its March to Plattsborough where he marched with them and from thence by Water to Canada and so on down the St Lawrence in Canada met the Troops below three Rivers towards Quebec was in the Battle on the three rivers on their retreat continued to retreat up the St Lawrence to Sorel, Chambly and finally out of Canada to Mount Independence on Lake Champlain where he continued until the first of February 1777. when the term of the Regiment's enlistment expired and he was discharged in writing by Col. Wagoner he believes. that in this force he knew Genl Benedict Genl Sullivan Genl Thompson Col. Maxwell. Col. St Clair and others whose names he does not remember - And he further states that in June 1777. the militia were called out and he volunteered on that occasion went in Capt. Childs Company in Col.

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Williams Regiment marched to Ticonderoga and in three or four days the army retreated and arrived at Castleton Vermont that night and while there next morning he heard a firing at Hubbarston, and the army continued their retreat to Fort Edward he continued in the militia until about the middle of July and served about one month and went home to Granville his home
And he further states that immediately after arriving at home he enlisted in Capt. Parise Allen's Company in Col. Herrick's Regiment for six months marched to Panton Vermont then to Manchester. at Bennington was in the Battle at Bennington, in August, after the Battle took the prisoners of war into the meetinghouse kept them over night, were then ordered and they marched back to Manchester Panton Vermont from thence across through the woods to Lake George near Ticonderoga to destroy the British transports they destroyed the boats and took he believes about six hundred prisoners and freed many American prisoners, then went down Lake George to Ticonderoga Island where they were defeated having sent the prisoners to Mount Independence before to Col. John  Warner and they retreated to Fort Ann and then to Panton Vermont, and from thence they scouted on Lake Champlain and to Lake George and continued doing so until the Battle of Saratoga with Burgoyne, then went on to Saratoga arrived there in time to see the British march out lay down their arms as prisoners of war. he then with others went with Major Wait to Mount Independence, then marched to Stillmans Creek so called at Willbrough where they took a number of horses and forty British & Hesse prisoners, then returned to Panton Vermont where the Regiment was Disbanded in the Month of January 1778 having served in this campaign six months - he knew in this campaign Col. Warner Lieut. St. Clair Col. Leonard Col. Wells.
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After this he was residing in Granville on the frontier in the militia the remainder of the war he was out very frequently in the summer was out much of the time, and in about September 1779 while Stockwell commanded at Skensborough he was under Capt. Elias and he as Sergeant was ordered by him to command a party to reinforce the garrison at Skensborough under Capt. Stockwell went and laid there half a month and on various other times went to Ticonderoga
1/2 mrs

on Scouting parties was gone generally about ten or twelve days and one time in 1781 late in the fall he went with a party of men to Crown Point with Capt. M c Carroll who was the bearer of a packet from Lord Shelburne to the British Commanders there informing him of the Surrender of Lord Cornwallis. He was gone ten or twelve days - and at the Burning of Shunk's Stone house and other Buildings at Sheepsborough on another occasion when he was out a week or ten days - That he has no documentary evidence of it and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can produce who can testify to his services. And that there is no Clergyman living in his immediate vicinity.
 1. That he was born at Rutland Massachusetts on the 6th day of November 1756  2. That he has no record of his age  3. That he lived in Franklin Washington County New York when called into the Service, and after the Revolution went to the adjoining Town of Fort Ann about 1782 when he lived some time there to Skene's Ferry in the same County thence to Granville again thence again to Fort Ann where he now lives  4. Enlisted for nine years never served as an substitute  5. That the names of the officers Regiments he has mentioned as fully as he can remember in the body of his Declaration  6. That he received several discharges but by whom they were all signed he don't know except the first by Genl. Schuyler and the second by Col. Wayne as above stated that they have all been lost or destroyed. He has no documentary evidence  7. That he is known by Thomas Griffith John B. Barker Samuel Standish and others who can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution. 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State whatever
Elizer Green for his wife
Sworn & subscribed the day and year aforesaid
J. S. Leigh CTS

Washington County ss. Thomas Griffith of Whitehall in said County aged Sixty nine years being duly sworn saith he has known Ebenezer Farnsworth named in the annexed Declaration for more than fifty years and knows he served in the Militia and has been out in Scorts with him on the frontiers about Lake Champlain and has heard at the time of service of his being frequently out as a Scout. He knows he was a Sergeant in the Militia and has heard of his being in the Regular Army a long time which he believes, having in their Scorts heard himself of his serving in the Army and by general report which the deponent has heard doubted. Said such report is very general —
Subscribed & sworn this 25th day of August 1852 before me
Thomas Griffith
I, Saker Pease and I certify that the above Deposition is a credible person having been acquainted with him for thirty years and never heard his character for truth or in any other respect doubted.
Saker Pease
Washington County ss. Timothy Allen of Hartford in the County of Washington State of New York aged Seventy three years being duly sworn saith that he has been acquainted with Ebenezer Farnsworth named in the annexed Declaration since the year 1875, that is in the year 1877 this deponent was a Soldier in Capt. Parmachooch's Company in Col. Herrick's Regiment, and that said Ebenezer Farnsworth was a Sergeant in that Company and served for six months in the Regiment aforesaid and this deponent saith he has heard the above statement of his said service read and concurs in substance and matter of fact therein above stated and he has since the Revolution has been acquainted with him knows him to be the same person and that he is a man of veracity — And he in the time of the Revolution heard of the said Ebenezer Farnsworth having performed other services in the Revolution as a Soldier and that

he went into Canada as a soldier and was there a considerable time. This he heard from two soldiers who were in Canada and heard it in the Revolutionary war. Which information he believes true.  Sworn this 28 Aug 1832. Timothy Allen
Parker Pease and certify that this deponent is a credible person and is called Deacon Allen from having held that office in a Baptist Church.  Parker Pease And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that the said Thomas Griffith who has signed the above affidavit is a resident of Whitehall in said County and that Timothy Allen who has signed the above affidavit is a resident in Hartford in said County and that they are respectable persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Isaac Leigh Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said Co. hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Ebenezer Harnsworth for a pension -  And that John C. Parker before whom the above affidavits of Thomas Griffith and Timothy Allen purport to have been sworn was at the time of the date thereof a justice of the peace of said County duly authorized by law to administer oaths and that his signature thereto is his proper hand writing.  In testimony whereof have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this twenty ninth day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty two. I. S. Leigh C.C.P.

11/11/32 - N o 7848
Ames Smith Ebenezer Farnsworth
(Page 75.)
16.
20 Sep 1832 21 Nov '32
J. C. Parker Ag.

107848  BRIEF in the case of  Ebenezer Faradsworth of Granville  Washington County  of _____ in the State of New York  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
Before a Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he?
76 year on 6 th last November (1831)
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1775 May — 6 — private Col: Eason's Regt. - Capt. Root   1776 April 1 — — " Decker -   1777 June — 1 — " Capt: Oliver Parmely. Col: Burrel -   " — *6 — " Capt. Childs. Col: Williams   1779 about Sept. — — 15 Sergeant Capt: P. Allen. Col: Herrick   Capt: Stockwell.  
5. In what battles was he engaged?
at the Battle of Three Rivers at the Battle of Branton
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
at Granville
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
2 living witnesses
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
they appear to be correct
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
James Ord
Examining Clerk.

28724 Rev INVALID.
File No. 28724
Ebenezer Farnsworth
Sgt Rev War
Act: 7 th June 1827
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 181
[Arrangement of 1870.]